Barton Geddes

"If you're lucky enough to come to America, set foot on our soil, then you ought to learn everything about my culture. Consider yourselves incredibly honored to be here. Incredibly honored! 'Cause America is the greatest and most powerful country on earth. Land of supremacy, and that is an undisputable fact. Is that understood?"

- Geddes encouraged patriotism to the recruits.

Barton Geddes is a corrupt Gunnery Sergeant of the U.S. Marines.

A ruthless and extremely xenophobic drill instructor, Geddes wanted to discourage Chinese martial arts by being openly racist toward Chinese-Americans and using his powerful combat skills to show off his superiority. He is personally convinced that karate is the only superior form of martial arts and sought to go through any and all lengths to prove that his views are the correct ones and that any other alternatives are the wrong ones. Geddes eventually became the ringleader of a conspiracy to let the INS to forcefully deport numerous CCBA members by using his powerful karate skills and his belief in racial inferiority to justify his actions. However, after his fight with Ip Man, his extreme arrogance ultimately caused his downfall, and as a result, he became severely injured after he let his ego get the best of him.

He serves as the main antagonist of Ip Man 4: The Finale.

Ip Man 4: The Finale
When Hartman Wu, Staff Sergeant in the Marines, attempts to convince Geddes to incorporate Chinese martial arts into their hand-to-hand combat training, he proves that their current Karate training is superior by asking him to fight the Marines' Karate instructor, Colin Frater. He easily defeats Hartman and as punishment, all Chinese recruits must run an extra 30 laps; while Hartman must run an extra 30 laps after that. Hartman later manages to convince the Commanding Officer about introducing Kung Fu and is instructed to film the Mid Autumn Festival happening at the Association for research, which upsets Geddes.

Geddes tells Frater what Hartman did and commands him to challenge the grandmasters at the Festival. Colin does so, defeating Masters Law, Chiu and Chiang. Suddenly, Ip Man interferes and defeats him badly. Meanwhile, Wan, who was supposed to be present at the festival, is arrested by the immigration officers. Upon seeing Colin being unable to battle & laying in the Marine Corps hospital bed, Geddes barges into the Association to find out where Wan is kept and defeats everyone there. He then threatens Walters to release Wan into the Marines' custody before bringing Wan into the camp to fight him. Due to a tip-off by a student of Lee, the Association is left empty by the time the immigration officers raid the place. Lee provides refuge for the Association, earning their respect.

Wan was seriously injured from the fight with Geddes. Ip Man is then brought into the Marines' camp by Hartman, where he battles Geddes. Geddes says that the fight wouldn't contain any rules and that they brawl until one of them cannot battle anymore. So, Ip and him fight. The battle goes rather well until Geddes chokeholds Ip and Ip is about to have his arm broken. Ip takes Geddes' saying that the battle would contain "no rules" and eventually defeats Geddes by kicking his groin twice, striking his neck along with breaking one of Geddes' arms. Afterwards, Geddes grabs his own neck with his remaining hand & collapses on the floor all the while he coughs because of his injuries. Afterward, Hartman instructs that Geddes is to be taken to sick bay and two cadets named Harris & Johnson get him there; while the audience applauds Ip for defeating Geddes.

After Ip Man's death and legacy, Chinese martial artists are subsequently invited to come into the Marine Corps and teach in their hand-to-hand combat training program, starting from 2001. And as a result, Geddes' plan obviously backfired. It's also currently unknown what happened to Geddes afterwards, but it can be safely assumed that he was dishonorably discharged for his actions.

Personality
"...The hatred comes first, and a thin veil of rationality comes later. The rationale has to be there because everyone believes they are a good person, which is why [Geddes] doesn't even think he's a racist."

- Accented Cinema

Geddes is extremely patriotic, but this is overshadowed by his bigotry and xenophobic behavior toward non-White people. He encourages white supremacy and is generally disrespectful and racist toward Chinese-Americans, cruelly taunting and humiliating them at every chance he gets, even towards children.

When it comes to martial arts, Geddes is often intensely proud, overconfident, cocky, and aggressive in his proficiency in karate, but this often turns into into self-righteous arrogance and downright ignorance. A man who doesn't want to corrected upfront, he is completely convinced that karate is the only supreme form of martial arts that he will go through any and all lengths to prove that his views are the correct ones and that any other alternatives are the wrong ones. However, his egotistical attitude was his huge downfall, since he thought that he was the best and never admitted his mistakes, eventually being defeated in his duel against Ip, which led to everyone (including his own recruits and coworkers) to lose whatever little respect that they had for him since the beginning.

Quotes
"You know there's a rumor going around saying that I'm racist. I'm not racist. See, I don't hate you because you're colored. I HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE A COWARDLY COLORED!"

- Barton Geddes showing racism in a hypocritical manner